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School Painting Warm and Cool Colours

Some colours definitely create the feeling of warmth, while
others have a real cool feeling.These colour
families are known as warm and cool colours.

Each family includes both primary and secondary colours.

The colour wheel clearly shows us that colour relationship.
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The Colour Wheel

Cool and warm colours

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If you were to paint a cold rainy day then you would get the
best results with a cool colour.And if
you were to paint a sunset then you would use a warm colour.

Another way to look at it is you could call the warm colours
the colours that remind you of warm things like a fire or heat.They are colours that almost seem to jump
forward off the page at you.This is because
they are colours that look and feel like they are full of bright sunlight.

The cool colours seem to have this moving backward
feeling.This is because they are not as
bright and colourful as warm colours.

By choosing to work in the warm or cool colours you can
create the right mood to your painting.

Another idea is to tint your background with a mood colour
before you paint so will you start the paint with the right mood feeling.Like tint with a red or pink for a sunset.

Often school paint brands will have 3 primary colours in
warm and cool colours to make it easy for students to work out which colours
are which.